Cloud Service Outages Impact DevOps and Development Workflows
Summary
Hide ▲
Show ▼
Cloud service disruptions are increasingly affecting DevOps and development workflows, highlighting the need for resilience in software development. Recent outages in services like Anthropic's Claude.ai and GitHub have underscored the vulnerability of cloud-based tools. These incidents, while mostly minor, have led to calls for better preparedness and redundancy in development practices. Major incidents, such as the Shai-Hulud worm's impact on the npm ecosystem, have shown the potential for significant disruptions. Experts warn that a major outage could cause hours to days of downtime, affecting multiple teams and projects. Development platforms like GitHub, Azure DevOps, and GitLab have experienced various incidents, with some lasting several hours. These outages have led to discussions on improving resilience and preparedness in development workflows.
Timeline
-
25.09.2025 16:39 1 articles · 4d ago
Anthropic's Claude.ai and Console Services Experience System-Wide Outage
On September 10, 2025, Anthropic's Claude.ai and Console services, along with the associated API, suffered a system-wide outage lasting approximately 30 minutes. This incident highlighted the vulnerability of cloud-based tools and the need for resilience in development workflows. The outage led to discussions on improving preparedness and redundancy in development practices, with experts advising the implementation of local-first workflows, fallbacks, failovers, and caching dependencies.
Show sources
- How Cloud Service Disruptions Are Making Resilience Critical for Developers — www.darkreading.com — 25.09.2025 16:39
Information Snippets
-
Anthropic's Claude.ai and Console services experienced a system-wide outage on September 10, 2025, lasting about 30 minutes.
First reported: 25.09.2025 16:391 source, 1 articleShow sources
- How Cloud Service Disruptions Are Making Resilience Critical for Developers — www.darkreading.com — 25.09.2025 16:39
-
GitHub reported degraded performance across multiple services in July 2025, leading to about 4% of requests failing.
First reported: 25.09.2025 16:391 source, 1 articleShow sources
- How Cloud Service Disruptions Are Making Resilience Critical for Developers — www.darkreading.com — 25.09.2025 16:39
-
The Shai-Hulud worm compromised over 500 npm packages, causing significant disruption in the development community.
First reported: 25.09.2025 16:391 source, 1 articleShow sources
- How Cloud Service Disruptions Are Making Resilience Critical for Developers — www.darkreading.com — 25.09.2025 16:39
-
Azure DevOps suffered 74 incidents in the first half of 2025, including one performance degradation lasting 159 hours.
First reported: 25.09.2025 16:391 source, 1 articleShow sources
- How Cloud Service Disruptions Are Making Resilience Critical for Developers — www.darkreading.com — 25.09.2025 16:39
-
GitHub incidents rose 58% year-over-year in the first half of 2025, with 17 major outages totaling over 100 hours of disruption.
First reported: 25.09.2025 16:391 source, 1 articleShow sources
- How Cloud Service Disruptions Are Making Resilience Critical for Developers — www.darkreading.com — 25.09.2025 16:39
-
GitLab faced 59 incidents in the first half of 2025, with a total of 1,346 hours of disruption.
First reported: 25.09.2025 16:391 source, 1 articleShow sources
- How Cloud Service Disruptions Are Making Resilience Critical for Developers — www.darkreading.com — 25.09.2025 16:39
-
GitLab maintains a 99.8% uptime service-level objective, with no significant site-wide outages in the past five years.
First reported: 25.09.2025 16:391 source, 1 articleShow sources
- How Cloud Service Disruptions Are Making Resilience Critical for Developers — www.darkreading.com — 25.09.2025 16:39
-
DevOps teams are advised to implement local-first workflows, fallbacks, failovers, and caching dependencies to build resilience.
First reported: 25.09.2025 16:391 source, 1 articleShow sources
- How Cloud Service Disruptions Are Making Resilience Critical for Developers — www.darkreading.com — 25.09.2025 16:39
-
Experts recommend stress-testing failover strategies and simulating outages to uncover hidden dependencies.
First reported: 25.09.2025 16:391 source, 1 articleShow sources
- How Cloud Service Disruptions Are Making Resilience Critical for Developers — www.darkreading.com — 25.09.2025 16:39